The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1902, Page 6

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(long Distance Telephone “Central 2610.") | NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPFHEN B. SMITH..... 80 Tridbune Building NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. «...Herald Square NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoris Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 TUnion Square; Murrey Hill Hotel; Fifth-avenue Hotel snd Hoffman House. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Shermsn House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Sremont House; Auditorfum Hotel; Palmer House. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:80 o'clock. 800 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 | McAllister, open until 9:80 o’clock. 615 Larkin, open until | :80 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 | Market, corper Eixteenth, open until ® o'clock. 1088 Va- | lencis, open until ® o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until § | tuire” says: “Sand, without the admixture of vegetable | | soil is granite. FIRE IN FORESTRY. HE CALL has frequently advocated the preser- T vative use of fire as an agent in forest preserva- tjon. After the fallen leaves, limbs and timber for proper penetration of the soil they should be | cleared away, lest they become the means of spread- ing forest fires. Especially is this necessary in lo- calities like this coast, where there is a long dry sea- son and the accumulation of duff becomes as inflam- mable as tinder. Quoting a recent article from The Call on this sub- ject “Arboriculture,” the organ of the International Forestry Association, denounces this suggestion as “folly and idiocy.” Without stopping to remind that able and useful publication that hard words pre- serve no forests, we may be permitted to insist that the conservative use of fire is necessary to forest preservation, We received all the forests of this continent, and they were the finest forests in the world, from the In- dians. Those natural foresters employed fire pre- cisely as we have suggested, and the abundant and fine condition of the forests they turned over to us showed the propriety of their use of fire. In those European countries where scientific forestry is prac- have performed their office in holding the moisture | ticed the ground is kept clean of such accumulations | as the Indians removed by fire. Let it be admitted | that the Indian method is not applicable to all locali- ties, and that there are places where as “Arboricul- | mold, fails to become soil, and vast quantities of arti- | ficial fertilizers must be used to produce vegetation.” This is granted. But it does not apply to the clay soils of the East and Middle West, where slow growth produced the fine white oak, sugar maple and other valuable hard woods. conditions in this State. Here we have the greatest and most valuable varie- ties of coniferous trees in the world. Their natural In our mountains great coniferous trees may be seen growing in clefts in the granite. In the face cf that great mass of granite, El Capitan, in Nor does it apply to| o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open unttl § o'ciock. 2200 Fillmore, open untll 9 p. m. | | APATHY IN CONGRESS. \ | { ASHINGTON dispatches relating to the business of Congress tend to the conclusion t the session will be more notable for ting well enough alone” than for legislation. Up »f adjournment for the holidays the two ged to pass the pension bill carry- | jation of $139,000,000, but that is about s done. It has been noted, moreover, that nt was taken for about the longest time | r a session which must end on March 4, s looked upon as a proof that the lead- er to legislate. They prefer to have 1 record and that ers are | any vegetable mold. the Yosemite, is a niche made by the spalling of an immense piece of the rock. In the niche, midway be- tween the top and bottom of the perpendicular cliff, is growing a yellow pine tree 125 feet high. The: seed was carried there by a bird, germinated and grew | in a crevice in the rock, without the assistance -of Nowhere else do the conifer- ous forests renew themselves as rapidly as here, be- cause of the universal presence of granite, which the roots disintegrate and the tree feeds upon. In our forests, as managed by the Indians, there was no lack of nursling trees. The oncoming crop was not cbliterated by the use of fire, because that use was made twice a year and the duff was so shallow | that it did not make a fire capable of destroying the young growth. Now it is different. Where fires are | kept out the duff is several feet thick and it spreads | fire in such volume in the dry season that it de- | stroys everything. For this reason the forests which M | cepted as scientific statements of fact. . The inevitable | exaggerations of ignorant and excited natives are to | undertake it for Morccco? are administered by the Government must be very | carefully treated before the duff is entirely dry, and | many successive firings should be used while it is| damp until it is all cleared down to the ground. If| wise, for the issues involved are the able editor of “Arboriculture” will visit some of | wnderctood. <o that action at this time | OUF forests in the dry season he will have a chance to | ature and probably haimful. The in- see lhat‘hcre the f})re.st floor, compo.sed of dry .dllfi nand in some quarters for tariff revision is i‘c\'cral. feet deep, is itself a preventive of germma—! 5 things in which Congrcss“lon of scefl and a bar lo.mresl renewal. The seed | should “ Basie dowls.” |1t is Hiot b be cxpeised of th.e cenifers falls ir this dry mass and does not | of coursé that the present schedules will remain un-| germinate.at-all e - o Bt at Tt Shioe dime thete Steitb{ The editor says that: “All the prairie and plai country, two-thirds the area of the United States, | a good = of the measures now before them go over to the next Congress. | In some respects the decision of the more influen- two houses not to undertake imme- sistent de! y one of the | | | changed for no sufficient reason for tinkering with the tariff just | now. Whenever revision is made the tariff should has been .cause_d to be treeless solely from fire, from | TR as a whole, and that of course cannot the practice of the aborigi{lcs in burning the forest, | B Siktakra o el and ].ztcr the grass, to drive game.” This is very | | AR RS RS SR WA CTE S questionable. There is some doubt that the prairies | proper were ever forest land. Had they been there would surely have been mdre evidence of it than has| ever been disclosed. The' streams in the prairie country were found lined by forests, which extended into the high land, removed from the influence of the ol 5 Bonrth 35 fheiFallily water. Why were not these destroyed, too, if the prairies were stripped? The Call does not wish to be dogmatic on this subject, but to be reasonable in the desire to pro- mote the growing movement for the intelligent preservation of our forests. We want the subject to be impressed upon the people as one of the most im- portant economic matters that can occupy their at- R T SR | fvcmion.. We dcsil.'e to see scvhools of forestry estab- BB s arethy ith resbict do andimites ijnshed in our universities, like thoserf Yale and} such importance is that there is very little opposi- | COrnell to supply a large corps of trained foresters, tion to them in either House. Congress is enjoying | who .w?fl Fud s prpiObicgatect ating S ae B o ol focing . The shew who Hive bosi'the remaining f?resls as to make t]'1&m permanent ll’:l thevlr most vigorous fighters on the opposition side in the | sup.ply o hmber.for R ar}d lasting 4 Senate are now in no mood for further battle. Mor- S eaetornt ‘l,nfluemc poom the iclimate ‘ot the ¢ B R Wiat are 134 and in M Béilth. Jones of e country, the fez'tlllly of the soil and the’.prosperity of | R s oen At own by his State dad knows the people.” W hatcv_er method such trained furestcrsi that his days as a Senator are numbe‘red Teller of sy adopt or treating the ifovest floqr, yhethe by Colorado has 2 hard fight before him and is more in- | A r?mova] o useless accumalations by other) terested in Colorado politics just now than in na- | Emts, (Wl Yave g Bupport tional legislation. Moreover, there is no specially ex- citing issue to fight about. The tariff and the silver question have ceased to arouse the minds of men, and even the trust question no longer excites the pub- | lic d as it did when it first attracted attention and | gave rise to alarm. It is to be added that the leaders of the two | gislation, and there will be a good | it if nothing be done this win- country expect deal of disappo One of the pressing issues is the reform of the ther is the revision of the immigration s the establishment of the Philippine a gold ba e Republican pledge to promote Ameri- g on the ocean. Each of those measures | long considered and bills providing for are now before Congress. It would therefore; require no great amount of energy to enact them, nor can any valid excuse be neglecting them, ter. them given for | e — | | The weather has been so cold and fuel so scarce | | in Boston that the city officials had to warm up the | public gymnasiums and invite the suffering people to | go there and keep warm. It is good to be a Boston | mao provided you live somewhere else. VENEZUELA WILL PAY. | doctor of laws in the world, but it seems nowadays | can friends seem to understand the difference between houses became indifferent to the passage of any no-l table legislation at this session as soon as they learned that there is not likely to be an extra session. - A | threat to call them together to deal with the cur-| rency might even yet have the effect of stimulating them to action. The announced intention of the President, however, to come West next spring re- moves any expectation of such a call. We may there- fore look for very little work at this session beyond the passage of the routine bills unless pressure be brought to bear upon the two houses urging them to act on one or two of the giore important measures. | While there will be of course a good deal of dis- appointment over a comparatively inactive session, | yet the business interests of the countrs will doubt- less much prefer that to hasty and overmuch legis- lation. Senator Hanna's advice to the people in the late election was, “Stand pat” and since the people followed the advice Congressmen naturally feel in- b clined to do likewise ‘ ¢ { B. L. Winchell, vice president and general man-‘ ager of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway,‘ says “motion means money,” which is a back action | repetition of the old saying, “Money makes the mare | g0”; but perhaps the rule works well either way, so | get 2 move on. 1 —_— A little Polish girl was sentenced by the German | authorities a few days ago to imprisonment for two weeks because she stamped upon a picture of Em- peror William. This should teach us that we ought to leave 2 fellow alone when he is on his own mole- hill | discipline. | will be accepted, with the result of putting the rev- | portance. The Latin-Americans will be taught the | mestic administration. They will follow the enlight- ENOR BARALT, the Venezuelan Minister of | S Foreign Affairs, has said’ officially to United | States Minister Bowen: “Venezuela agrees to pay all her debts, the payments to be guaranteed by a certain percentage of the customs receipts, or by the flotation of a loan, also to be guaranteed.” This return of .their senses to the rulers of that country, albeit enforced by the recent unhappy ex- periences. will be hailed with satisfaction by all the nations concerned. Nothing prevented Castro mak- ing and redeeming the same promise a year ago, which would have saved him all of his recent There is no doul;t that some such offer as that made by Seligman to finance the indebtedness enues on a sound basis and giving them an honest administration. This promise of Semor Baralt will greatly simplify and expedite the arbitration by The Hague tribunal, and within a few months the inci- dent in its immediate features will be ended. Its prolonged consequences will be of more im- true ‘meaning of the Monroe doctrine, that it pro- tects their sovereignty and territory but not their dishonest evasion of international obligations. When they abandon that perverse construction their own people will be blessed with a sounder and better do- ened and exalted example of Mexico, by giving ade- quate protection to all personal and property rights, Then it will be safe for them to do for themselves very much that they have had to have done by for- ecign investors. Nearly all of those countries are! LKANCIFCO CALL, TUESDAY, peculiarly rich in natural resources, which their own people dare not develop because of the revolutionary tendencies of their governments. A South American was in New York City the day before one of our national elections. He saw the surging crowds, and on all hands the heated evidences of potent political passion. In the afternoon he be- gan packing his effects, to leave the city. An Ameri- can friend asked him why he was going so hastily. He replied that he sought his own safety by leaving the city before the revolution broke out, as he was certain from the intensity of feeling over the election that the defeated party would not submit and the | eity might be destroyed. He was persuaded to re- main and was astonished to see business resumed the day after election and victor and vanquished in ge-| nial fellowship, accepting the result as final, and everybody industriously pursuing his peaceful voca- tion. In his country the political passion would have been intensified by the result and there would have been destructive revolution. The nations south of us want to apply the lesson he learned in New York, and then person and prop- erty will be safe, and they will all assume their proper place among the family of naQons, blessed by stable and orderly government. Under the stress of existing international complica- tions Uncle Sam feels that he ought to own more fighting ships. This dream of being one of the great world powers, instead of attending strictly to one’s own affairs, is' not so pleasant as it promised to be. THE MOROCCO OUTBREAK. OROCCO has at last developed the serious situation so long expected. An insurrection, headed by an “unknown,” has found.so much support that the Sultan is said to be alarmed. Of course reports from that country are not to be ac- be allowed for in most of the stories that come in from the scene of activity. Still the situation appears dangerous even to European observers, and it is not at all improbable that Europe may find herself forced | to “undertake without further delay the solution of | the Morocco problem. . France has about as much right to interfere in Morocco as we had 1o interfere between Cuba and | Spain. Morocco borders on the French possessions in Algiers, and her Mediterranean coast offers posi- tions of vartage with respect to the commerce of | that inland sea which the French cannot look upon | with indifferent eyes. It appears to have become ! recognized as a rule of international law that the strong nations of the world must do police and gen- eral supervision duty for the decadent nations. We | are doing it for the Philippines and all nations are | doing it for China. Why then should not France The question has been long under consideration, and statesmen of both countries have spoken of it as a favorable issue upon which to arrange a har- monious settlement of long standing differences be- tween France and Great Britain. It has been argued | that should the British concede France a free hand in Morocco the French could well afford to abandon in exchange their rights in the Newfoundland fisher- | ies and their pretensicns on the Nile. The annexa- tion of Morocco would round out the French empire | in Africa and give it a commanding position on that | continent. The only ‘objection to the making of| such an agreement is that a strongly fortified harbor | on the Morocco coast would offset Gibraltar, and the | British naturally hesitate to grant it. It is a familiar fact that men never grapple with a great problem so long as they can evade it. The; Morocco question, like that of the Balkans, will | doubtless be postponcd just as long as the European concert dan possibly find or devise means of evasion. 1f, however, the present insurrection should result in an overthrow of government, and the disorder should spread so far as to affect French interests in Algiers, it would seem that France would be com- pelled to intervene in celf-defense. The powers would then have to decide how far France may go in estab- ishing peace and how long she may stay. Perhaps ht be able to glay in Morocco the part that Britain is playing in Egypt, and should it be so the African series of world problems would be very nearly solved in their entiret; ‘When asked to accept the degree of LL.D. from the University of Chicago Dr. Lorenz, the Austrian surgeon, is reported to have said: “I am the worst | the less a man knows the greater is his degree.” The doctor intended his words as an expression of modesty, but other LL.Ds. would like to throw a brick at him for his impudence. And what Prince Henry say? will Whatever else may be said of the people of Caracas they certainly are entitled to credit for discretion in asking for peace after they saw that the other fellows were bigger and meant business. Our South Ameri- fighting among themselves and fighting with another fellow, who knows only the courtesy impressed by gun fire, 3 The Crown Princess of Saxony, whose flight from her husband has created scandal and humiliation in European court circles, has well won the tribute which is given to honesty of action. She made a mistake, however, when she believed that the world cared to share her shame. A letter has been received in Pennsylvania from a lady residing in the volcanic districts of Guatemala saying: “We hear that earthquakes are occurring all over the world and that on January 20 the world is to come to an end. Have you heard anything about it?” iy bl They tell it for a fact in Boston that a six-year-old girl coming home one day from kindergarten and finding a lady visitor in the parlor walked up to her and said, “Mrs. Robinson, your costume in its en- semble is a fair example of contrasted harmony.” It seems to be a custom at Point Loma, if court reports be true, to starve babies to make their souls appear. This practice unquestionmably recommends | itself as one positive of success, but in the nomen- clature of the law it is called infanticide. e The Supreme Court has knocked the local Board of Education out again. Some of these days the hon- | orable members of the board will wake up and dis- | cover that in this State no tenure of public office can long endure as a private snap. DECEMBER 30, 1902. CALIFORNIA ARTIST JOURNEYS FROM GAY PARIS TO OLD MADRID e i | | 1 | \ _— o — - REPRODUCTION OF A PHOTOGRAPH OF “A STUDY IN RED,” PAINTED BY MISS GERTRUDE PARTINGTON OF SAN FRANCISCO FROM A FAMOUS PARISIAN MODEL. THE PAINTING IS OWNED BY SAMUEL BANCROFT JR. OF WILMINGTON, DEL. )Y young artist’s numerous admirer: I s. The accompanying picture, painted fr property of /Samuel Bancroft Jr. of Wilmington, Del., whose collection of the — HE following letter recently received from Miss Gertrude Partington will doubtless be of interest to the gifted Parisian model, is the of the Preraphaelite om a famous works artists is the most notable on this side the Atlantic. ‘We left Paris for Madrid on Saturday to stop at several places on the way, but decided finally to come straight through. It did not make very much differerice anyway. The trains are so slow, stopping from a half hour to a couple of hours at many of the stations, and in this way we got a very good idea of the towns and surrounding country. We passed through Tqurs, Poitlers—a beautifully quaint old town, an- clent Poitiers—you remember the famous battle fought there in one of the Henrys' times? Then came Bordeaux, Bayonne, Blarritz and Irun on the border. Although we traveled at night from Bordeaux to Irun, we could seg everything quite p'ainly in the brilliant moonlight. From Bordeaux the coun- try grew wilder and wilder every moment, and it seemed to fit in so beautifully when, the train stopping suddenly as we neared Biarritz, we heard the surf thundering on the shore. It was the famous Bay of Biscay, and it sounded just as rough as all the sailors say it is. At Bordeaux a nun asked if she might travel with us, as she was alone, so we invited her to take a cup of coffee with us at the station and said we should be highly honored. She was a dear old soul, and we were very glad of ‘her company, but it ‘was a little embarrassing at first, for we couldn’t re- member the proper way to address her. “Ma Soeur” sounded too formal, “Mlle.” too flippant, and ‘“Madame,” of course, was out of the question, but luckily we soon overheard the guard calling her ““Madame ma soeur.” Every one treated us with a comically profound respect while “Madame ma soeur’ was with us. We should have appreciated her company for the whole of the way, she made such a capital chaperon, but unfortunately her destination was Lourdes, where they are holding some kind of religious festival. I think she must have liked us, for she left us with “many regrets,” promising to say a speclal prayer for us at Lourdes. ‘We reached Irun at half past 5 in the morning, a dreary. wet day. The baggage had to be examined, and we cold and sleepy and hungry—everything horrid! However, the sleepiness soon wore off, things looked so strange and new—custom- house plrates generally make them look pretty lively. We had little besides hand baggage, but a muchness of that, as I was taking so many painting materials. The officers were wonderfully polite, passing everything, without any trouble, merely asking me when it was all over to write my name. 1 was very much astonished, for among my traps was a roll of canvas taller than myself, that I never dreamed would gef through. Miss and I were just congratulating ourselves on our unexpected luck when a man touched me on the shoul- der, at the same time presenting a paper intimating that Miss Gertrude Partington was in debt to the Spanish Government § pesetas 50, the duty on a roll of canvas. And they were so polite! # 2 We took breakfast at the station restaurant, and the waiter did such an odd thing. We wondered if it were on ac- count of the “late unpleasantness,” or simply a Spanish cus- tom, but while we were drinking our coffee ‘with the cups to our lips, he carried off the saucers. The Spanish trains are not so black as they are painted, but neither do they suggest a Pullman—hardly! They have one feature, though, that is wholly admirable. There is an out- side platform, from which one may see all there is to see in EARTHQUAKE’S SHOCK AGAIN JARS ANDIUAN FORTY VESSELS TO BRING COAL ter when you remember that the air inside the car is blue and thick with tobacco smoke. The scenery suggests California to me very strongly. It has the same vivid, clear color and fine mountain ranges. It was such a relief after the level, conventional French landseape, and the trains go so slowly that one can see everything. Curi- ously, it was just as I had pictured it, wild, but not savage, not sad exactly, but the very quintescence of dignity—the in- evitable background for a Don Quixote. The villages nestle into the hills as if they had grown there, and there is a chureh in every one of them, for all the world like a California mis- sion. At every stoppage of the train two soldiers march right though presumably to look for banditti; and it makes one feel very ‘‘grand-opery” and romantic. We stopped at a little mountain fown for lunch, about which the less said the better, but on returning to the train we were horrified to find our compartment packed full of pec- ple, whom we overheard say that they were all going to Madrid! However, most of them turned out to be friends and relatives who had come to say “good-by.” When they had finished their farewells the car was not uncomfortably crowd- ed, but at night ‘twas another story. Such a motley erowd, fat duennas in mantillas, dirty, dignified senors smoking In- cessantly, two or three birds in cages, large-eyed senoras, dogs, dead game, and a few babies—poor little things! There was one duenna who quite fascinated me, most phenomenally fat, yet with a back as straight as a dart, and a most pro- digious dignity withal. She wore her mantilla most becoming- ly, and had doubtless been a great couquetd® in her day. I noticed an odd thing about cne of the men, very evidently a person of importance. As he was lifting his cigar to his mouth I could see his little finger nail, quite two inches long, exactly after the Chinese fashion. They tell me that it is one of the methods by which the Spaniard proves that he does not have to work for a living—that he is a gentleman! 1t was sundown as we neared Burgos, where there is the finest cathedral in Spain. It is difficult to imagine anything much more beautiful than its delieate Gothic spires, as they toned intc violet against the golden sky. “El1 CId” made his home here, you know. Then came Valladolid, famous for many things, among them that Cervantes lived for years there and Gil Blas studled medicine there with Dr. Sangrado. And-then we tried to settle down for the night—shade of Pull- man! The Spaniards began to prepare by settling the dogs, the bjrds and the babies comfortably into the best places, thems$elves turping in in _the left-over corners. We did the best we could—I won't distress you by details—and managed to doze a little. But I had a real fright—you must remember the bandits here are real, not the Frank Daniels kind, to un- derstand just how I felt. I waked up suddenly about 1 o'clock and there, right opposite me was a black-garbed, fateful-look- ing figure, where none had been hefore. Neither face nor hands were visible, the whole being swathed in the deepest, deadest black. Of course, it was a perfectly harmless Spanish semor, simply trying to keep out the light and noise with his cloak. BT! Gid not think of that then, nmor would you! At last a divine sunrise and Madrid, morning came, and with it Madrid and Velasauez. the way of scenery, and also get the fresh air—no little mat- Madrid, 1902. GERTRUDE PARTINGTON. MURDER TRIAL OF MRS. LILLIE ! groans and shrieks filled the air. ASHKABAD, Russian Turkestan, Dec. 29.—Another violent earthquake shock oc- curred at Andijan at 10 o’clock last night. Passenger service on the Andijan Rail- road, interrupted as a result of the pre- vious earthquakes, has been restored. 8 The earthquake’ victims number 4800, of whom 1600 persons were killed in the town of Andijan and the rest in thie adjacent country. About 1000 square miles were affected. The center of the disturbance was four miles south of Andijan, where there was a cleft In the ground whence sand, water and mud were issuing. Thasfirst shock lasted three seconds. It was repeated an hour later, when buildings began tum- bling, walls were thrown down and roofs collapsed, burying every one within, ;':d e shocks continued uninterruptedly for fif- teen minutes and were accompanied by terrifying rumblings, torrential rain and a hurricane. Persons in the streets were hurled to the ground repeatedly. No refuge whatever was available. The aged, the children and the ‘sick were equally expbsed, while the heartrending appeals of friends and relatives buried in the de- bris magnified the horror of the situation. The natives worked splendidly alopgside | the soldiery in disinterring the living and the dead. f Governor Ivanhoff, telegraphing to the Mascagni, it is said, is nervously prostrated over the churlish reception which he has received in this | country. He should take consolation to himself in- the fact that we submit our ears to a listening of his music. l Czar from Andijan, says: The garrison and population of Andijan pre- ited a & plcture three days after the catastrophe, praying for the Czar on his name- day amid the ruins, th the gray, wintry heaven, unsheltered from the threatening snows. BAG! DE LUCHON, France, Dec. 29.—A strong earthquake shock last- FROM ENGLAND —_— LONDON, Dec. 29.—It was said on good authority in Liverpool to-day that con- tracts had been made for 200,000 tons of coal for shipment from English, Scotch and Welsh ports to Eastern ports of the United States. The purchase of coal and the engagement of ships, it was added, had been going on for a fortnight and were expected to continue for several weeks. Forty steamers have already been chartered. The same authority says the coal pur- chases are the result of “‘an unexpected hitch in the coal strike arbitration in the United States.” L e e ] nds was fell 1};‘,5 ;‘glg:?e:;‘vung:ne-e t here last night. O WAk s b, oot iy — & Oscar Holliday Banghart is & millionaire, who sold out an enormously profitable busi- ness in, order to study art in Paris. From the prices he gets for his work it wounld seem that he was in a fair way to make another million as a painter of society women. No wonder every one marvels at the cost of the art supple- ' ments now a part of each Sun- day Call, for they are from the originals of Banghart’s last effort. . +_——_\_—* IS COMMENCED DAVID CITY, Neb., Dec. 29.—The pre- liminary trial of Mrs. Lena Lillle, charged with the murder of her husband, Harvey V. Lillle, in October last, began here to- day. : ~ Harvey Lillle was the agent of a local elevator company. He was shot in bed as he lay beside his wife. The defense try to prove that Lillie was, killed by a burglar, but the prosecution, which has been working on the case for some time, will endeavor to show that the bullet that killed Lillle was fired from the wife's side of the bed. Evidence will be adduced to show that Lillle carried $5000 life insur- ance, $7200 of which was in his wife's name. A bucket-shop operator here is ex- pected to testify that Mrs. Lillie had been trading with him for several years, and that between August 7 and October 1 of gn& year her losses amounted to about Leaves Estate to His Widow. SAN JOSE, Dec. 2.—The will of the late F. C. Franck, former State Senato". was filed for probate to-day. The estate is valued at $137,43 64. All the property ia left to the widow, but in case she mar- ries again it is to be divided among their children. ————— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —_————— Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, §0c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. 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